American Band

Any Drive By Truckers deserters will have missed out on their former favourite band's most streamlined and forceful album to date.

Many of the YouTube commenters on the Drive-By Truckers' lyric video for "What It Means" seem offended by the overt politics of the song, which comes from the group's new album. With references to Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and other young black men killed largely because they were young black men, the tune is unreservedly sympathetic to the Black Lives Matter movement—uncomfortably so, it seems, for some listeners, who accuse the band of "white guilt," "selling out" and, that most grievous of liberal pantywaist sins, political correctness.

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As Joe Strummer once proclaimed: "This is a public service announcement with guitars."   A politically supercharged collection of songs by...

American Band is concise, laser-focused, and brutally efficient, lyrically and musically.

American Band is the strongest and most overt political statement the group has ever made.

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